Life and health scientists

Anita Thapar

Anita Thapar is a Welsh child and adolescent psychiatrist at Cardiff University known internationally for Lancet studies on the genetics of ADHD and youth depression.

Anja Groth is a Danish molecular biologist and professor at the University of Copenhagen known for showing that the replication machinery itself recycles parental histones, preserving epigenetic information.

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Anjan Chatterjee

Anjan Chatterjee is an American neurologist at the University of Pennsylvania, founding director of the Penn Center for Neuroaesthetics, known for the aesthetic triad model and the 2004 cosmetic neurology debate.

Anjana Rao

Anjana Rao is an American immunologist and epigenetics researcher at the La Jolla Institute for Immunology, known for discovering NFAT and the TET enzymes' role in DNA demethylation.

Ankur Garg

Ankur Garg is a structural biologist and Research Investigator at HHMI's Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, known for cryo-EM structures of the microRNA pathway and kinase inhibitors.

Ankur Singh

Ankur Singh is an immunoengineering researcher and Carl Ring Family Professor at Georgia Tech, known for synthetic human immune organoids and nanowire delivery of microRNA into naïve T cells.

Ann B. Nattinger

Ann B. Nattinger is an American physician and breast cancer researcher at the Medical College of Wisconsin, known for studies of geographic variation in breast cancer treatment.

Ann Carolyn McKee

Ann Carolyn McKee, known as Ann C. McKee, is an American neurologist and neuropathologist at Boston University who defined the neuropathology of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).

Ann H. Partridge

Ann H. Partridge is an American medical oncologist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, a Harvard professor known for research on breast cancer in young women.

Ann Hermundstad

Ann Hermundstad is a neuroscientist who leads a lab at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus in Ashburn, Virginia, and heads Theory@HHMI, combining theory with experiments in flies and mice.

Ann Hochschild

Ann Hochschild is an American microbiologist who chairs the Department of Microbiology at Harvard Medical School, known for bacterial transcription regulation and for showing that prions can form in bacteria.

Ann M. Arvin

Ann M. Arvin is an American physician-scientist and virologist at Stanford University whose research established how varicella-zoster virus, the cause of chickenpox and shingles, travels through the body and reactivates.

Ann M. Graybiel

Ann M. Graybiel is an American neuroscientist at MIT, where she is Institute Professor, who discovered and named the striatum's striosomes and showed they control decision-making, habits, and mood.

Ann Marie Craig

Ann Marie Craig is a Canadian cellular neuroscientist and professor at the University of British Columbia who studies how neurons form synapses and how they fail in autism and schizophrenia.

Ann Marie Pendergast

Ann Marie Pendergast (Ann Pendergast) is a cancer researcher at Duke University School of Medicine, known for defining BCR-ABL pathways in leukemia and for work on ABL kinases in metastasis.

Ann Marie Schmidt

Ann Marie Schmidt is an American physician-scientist at NYU Grossman School of Medicine who discovered the RAGE receptor, linking high blood sugar to diabetic blood vessel damage.

Ann R. Falsey

Ann R. Falsey is an American infectious disease physician-scientist at the University of Rochester whose research established RSV as a major pathogen of older adults.

Anna Akhmanova

Anna Akhmanova is a Dutch cell biologist and professor at Utrecht University known for her work on the microtubule cytoskeleton, honored with the 2018 Spinoza Prize.

Anna Bill‐Axelson

Anna Bill-Axelson is a Swedish urologist, professor of surgical sciences at Uppsala University, who leads the SPCG-4 randomized trial showing that radical prostatectomy extends life in early prostate cancer.

Anna C. Nobre

Anna C. Nobre, known as Kia Nobre, is a Brazilian-born cognitive neuroscientist who studies attention and working memory, and became Wu Tsai Professor of Psychology at Yale in 2023.

Anna Chalfoun

Anna D. Chalfoun is an American wildlife ecologist at the USGS Wyoming Cooperative Unit and University of Wyoming, studying habitat selection and wildlife responses to environmental change.

Anna Gilmore

Anna Gilmore, also known as Anna B Gilmore, is a British public health physician and professor at the University of Bath known for tobacco control research.

Anna Glasier

Anna Glasier is a reproductive health researcher and Honorary Professor at the University of Edinburgh whose work made emergency contraception available without prescription in the UK.

Anna Goldenberg

Anna Goldenberg is a machine learning researcher at SickKids and the University of Toronto, known for patient similarity networks and the 2019 responsible AI roadmap "Do no harm".

Anna Greka

Anna Greka is an American physician-scientist in kidney disease research, a Broad Institute core member and Harvard Medical School professor who received a Presidential Early Career Award in 2014.

Anna L. Gloyn

Anna L. Gloyn, also known as Anna Gloyn, is a British diabetes geneticist and Stanford professor known for identifying KCNJ11 mutations as a cause of neonatal diabetes.

Anna Lasorella

Anna Lasorella is an Italian-trained physician-scientist in cancer genetics and brain tumor research, director of the Precision Medicine Initiative at the University of Miami since 2022.

Anna M. Stagner

Anna M. Stagner, also published as Anna Stagner, is an American ophthalmologist and ophthalmic pathologist who directs ophthalmic pathology at Massachusetts Eye and Ear and teaches at Harvard Medical School.

Anna Mae Diehl

Anna Mae Diehl is an American hepatologist known for research on liver injury and fatty liver disease, who directs the Duke Liver Center at Duke University.